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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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I like these federated services being kinda "rough around the edges" (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being "harder"* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies' services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

  • "harder" because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn't work with phrases? at least not on preview^

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[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh man, I never thought about that, but you're 100% right. I've had this nagging feeling of nostalgia while using Lemmy for the longest time, and that's exactly what it is.

[–] Shartacus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s beautiful and I hope the rest of the internet has a revolution like this.

Idk much about servers or anything but I hope someone finds a good way to replace YouTube next

[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

That'd be PeerTube, but federated video is hard. It's very expensive in terms of bandwidth and storage. In comparison, hosting a mostly text-based website with very little embedding of images and no embedding of video and sharing it with the world is relatively easy.